Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yttrx@xxxxxxxxx (yttrx) writes:
>
>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> GNOME [10th] Birthday
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> | Ten years ago the GNU Network Object Model Environment project was
>>>>>> | announced by Miguel de Icaza. Happy birthday GNOME!
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=99
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Only ten!!!! Good job that wasn't my million pound question on who wants
>>>>> to be a millionaire, because I would have picked a higher number than
>>>>> that, maybe C, 15 years. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have picked D,
>>>>> 2000 years.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you remember those early Gnomes, big clunky menus and buttons and
>>>>> shell stability that could be called mediocre. Then we have the product
>>>>> that we
>>>>
>>>> So Gnome wasn't ready for the desktop 10 years ago? Shock horror.
>>>>
>>>>> have now, a rock solid streamlined shell. In a way a shell if its good
>>>>> should be sort of invisible, you use it daily but don't notice it,
>>>>> because it never gets in the way, I think that is what Gnome has become,
>>>>> so good that you don't need to think about it anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that the new KDE will win some hearts though.
>>>>
>>>> KDE is an over engineered mess. It is strangling itself. It tries to be
>>>> too much for too many and as such has lost any true identity.
>>>
>>> Look at the new Kde, even in Beta it was worthy of note.
>>>
>>
>> KDE is for people who really should be using windows instead.
>>
>
> True and why Koehlmann is constantly banging on about some crappy
> over engineered feature in Konqueror - he IS a windows user and
> programmer.
That's a fair cop. KDE is *great* for windows converts, as most of
it will be pretty familiar to them.
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